Archives for
August 2009

Buzzd, a location-based social city guide and application for mobile phones, is actively interested in your mobile lifestyle. In order to study your mobile behaviors — presumably to improve their app — the company surveyed 1,027 of their users on mob...

Remember Friends Reunited? The social network, once a leader in the UK market and acquired by ITV in 2005 for £175 million, has been sold to Brightsolid, a subsidiary of Beano comic book publisher DC Thomson, for £25 million. Surprisingly, that's goo...

Feeling overwhelmed by Twitter? You're not alone...although you probably aren't trying to follow messages from over 100,000 people. Social media addict Robert Scoble was, and decided to unfollow them all at once. Scoble's situation is somewhat unique...

This morning civilization almost ground to a halt as Twitter was hit with a DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service Attack and went down for over two hours, with intermittent outages continuing even as they got the situation more under control. So what...

The social media world is under attack. Earlier this morning, Twitter acknowledged that its downtime was the result of a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), and now Facebook tells us that their intermittent site problems are also t...

Prior to this week it had a been awhile since we've had anything newsworthy to report about Delicious. The Yahoo owned social bookmarking site appeared to be relatively ignored on a development front, but now we're starting to see new additions breat...

24% of Tweets are created by automated bots, not humans, according to a recent study. Meanwhile, it was found that 5% of Twitter accounts generate 75% of Tweets. The "Inside Twitter" study, conducted last month by Sysomos, surprised researchers when ...

We now know that Facebook, Twitter, and LiveJournal were all victims of Distributed Denial of Service attacks that crippled each of their services for several hours today, with intermitted problems still being reported on all of them. Now, a source c...

Mashable's #Hyatt4Good Tweetup Tour is on the road. Don't miss us in Denver tonight and LA tomorrow! Following this week, we'll be in DC and then Boston. Each event is free or 100% donation to our Summer of Social Good charity fund benefiting Livestr...

The unfortunate thing about commenting on blogs is that it's all too often basically a silo: your message lives in one place, requires a specific login for that site alone, and can be difficult to share out if you feel you've been particularly insigh...

The Associated Press has been making controversial moves in the online space recently, including a plan to charge $12.50 for quoting 5 words of an AP story and enforcing strict social media rules on its staff. The AP has also been very critical of Go...

Twitter is currently experiencing extended downtime: a 30 minute outage that's one of the longest in recent months. Back in 2007 and 2008, Twitter downtime was relatively frequent: this year the site has been far more stable and its early outages hav...

Everybody's still regrouping after today's Denial of Service attacks against Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and other social media websites. Now, however, some further details about what happened and who might be behind it are coming to light. Accor...

You don't have to subscribe to the cult of GTD, shave your head and donate all your possessions to David Allen to improve your blogging workflow. Even taking a small amount of time to add some new discoveries to your toolkit now and then can reap lon...

Two months ago, Digg announced a lynchpin in its revenue strategy: Digg Ads. The program, an attempt to fix the company's inability to turn a profit, allows users to vote on specific ads within the homepage feed. The more diggs, the less the ad costs...

Twitter down today? Yup, so of course the social media addicts head on over to Facebook, which is experiencing outages of its own, although fortunately less frequent ones. Mashable staff are experiencing everything from "Network Errors" (below) to a ...

There is a lot of software out there for conducting virtual conferences and performing demos: GoToMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, WebEx, and AdobeAcrobat Connect immediately come to mind. Most of these programs though require software to be i...

As we reported last month, Microsoft Office is set to move to the Web in 2010, offering users browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. However, it hasn’t been exactly clear where that software might live in the vast world of Mi...

Koobface, a virus that targets computers via social networking sites, is apparently back and with added sophistication. A typical Koobface attack – like the one that surfaced on Twitter last month – comes via a link that purports to be an interesting...

Yesterday we covered the news of the George Sodini blog that foretold of his plans to commit the LA Fitness killings. Today Sodini's web presence is once again in the news as it was discovered he had a YouTube account to which he posted a video calle...

Web TV is the underdog in the entertainment world. Often times great talent is forced to find a home and an audience online, sometimes after being rejected by more mainstream outlets. The best a web series can typically hope for is the success that T...

As we learn more about the Denial of Service Attacks that took down Twitter and other social media sites earlier today, yet another wave of spam is invading the microblogging service. Thousands of tweets are currently being spread around the network ...

As much as we'd love to look picture perfect in every photo, most of us, myself included, need a little retouching from time to time. Sure there's those that just let it all hang out, blemishes and all, but for the rest of us there's Photoshop or onl...

The video seems like something out of a TV crime show. And, as it turns out, that’s because it’s a serious acting job. Dalia Dippolito of Boyton Beach, Florida thought she had a foolproof plot for killing her husband. Unfortunately for her, the hitma...

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